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I'm trying to read the planet coordinates but they keep shifting away from the numbers I need. Help?
How do I find the crash site (alien) in Hip 17862 6 C A?
Set a heading for 0 degrees and you will see only one of the numbers increase/decrease. If it's going the wrong way to what you want, change heading to 180 degrees.
Once you have one of the coordinates correct (or close), change your heading to either 90 degrees or 270 degrees to set the other coordinate.
Hope this helps.
Once you have one of the coordinates correct (or close), change your heading to either 90 degrees or 270 degrees to set the other coordinate.
Hope this helps.
This is one of the times it would have been good to pay attention in Geography Class. You know, Latitude and Longitude? I know, I know, when would you ever need to know that in "Real Life"... Kind of ironic, huh?
Regal is dead-on. I've manged to find a few barnacle sites this way. It's painfully slow on a larger planet but you do eventually get there.
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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/305066-Second-Crashed-Alien-Ship
Reading this. But every time I hit 90 on the top number on my hud, it goes down again.
Reading this. But every time I hit 90 on the top number on my hud, it goes down again.
You want MINUS 98.6110 and positive 30.3235.
Not positive 90.
When you finally hit -98 use yaw left or right until the number on top stops changing up or down (or barely changes) then work on the lower number.
If you're moving the wrong direction on the other one flip upside down while maintaining the one you have right.
Yaw is your friend on this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...isual_quick_reference_for_navigating_planets/
This helped me the most. Good luck!
This helped me the most. Good luck!
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Every time I hit minus 90 it starts going back towards 0.
Then you have to be on the wrong planet. You are talking about the top number on your HUD right?
There's a picture floating away somewhere, but I'm to lazy to look it up, so I'll try in words.
"Top number" is latitide. You start at zero latitude at the equator. As you go north (south), the latitude increases (decreases) to 90° (-90°), which is the north (south) pole. Once you've crossed over the pole, the latitude will decrese (increase) again down to finally zero when you're back at the equator.
Which value (latitude or longitude) is shown where in the HUD (top or bottom) has changed occasionally
, so if the top number can't go over 90, that is latitude and you'll need to go to lat 30, lon -98 (or 30° north, 98° east - on Earth, that would be somewhere in western Sichuan province, China )
"Top number" is latitide. You start at zero latitude at the equator. As you go north (south), the latitude increases (decreases) to 90° (-90°), which is the north (south) pole. Once you've crossed over the pole, the latitude will decrese (increase) again down to finally zero when you're back at the equator.
Which value (latitude or longitude) is shown where in the HUD (top or bottom) has changed occasionally
, so if the top number can't go over 90, that is latitude and you'll need to go to lat 30, lon -98 (or 30° north, 98° east - on Earth, that would be somewhere in western Sichuan province, China )
I really hope I don't mix up X and Y, but if I did, just reverse what I am about to say.
First coordinate is the X-Axis: inreases at 0, decreases at 180
Second coordinate is the Y-Axis: increases at 90, decreases at 270
You can also draw a cross on a piece of paper and label the upper and 0, the one pointing down 180, the right one 90 and the left one 270 to help the brain keep that in mind.
Also be aware of negative coordinates which, of course, will increase when the coordinate decreases.
You can also use this, by the way: https://hotdoy.ca/ed/bearing/
First coordinate is the X-Axis: inreases at 0, decreases at 180
Second coordinate is the Y-Axis: increases at 90, decreases at 270
You can also draw a cross on a piece of paper and label the upper and 0, the one pointing down 180, the right one 90 and the left one 270 to help the brain keep that in mind.
Also be aware of negative coordinates which, of course, will increase when the coordinate decreases.
You can also use this, by the way: https://hotdoy.ca/ed/bearing/
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I'm locked onto planet HIP 17862 6 C A as shown in the thread I linked.
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I just tested it on another planet, and it does exactly the same thing when I hit 90.
You are not refering to the numbers in the middle of the screen, right? The ones indicating the angle you are pointing at.
You are looking at the numbers in the lower right corner of the hud, right?
Edit: also just saw that the top number is supposed to be 30.3225. You don't need to hit 90+
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Worth mentioning that if you're flying East or West (90 or 270 degrees on the overhead compass) at any latitude other than bang on the equator then your compass heading will start drifting.
That's cause you're flying a geodesic path over a spherical object (look up Great Circle Distance) rather than straight-lining over an infinitely flat plane.
It's more noticeable with the tiny potato planets.
That's cause you're flying a geodesic path over a spherical object (look up Great Circle Distance) rather than straight-lining over an infinitely flat plane.
It's more noticeable with the tiny potato planets.
Funny how that happens...
I say again: Latitude and Longitude
Nothing new here... Works the same on every planet everywhere. Did you miss that day at school?
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Wait... So the original coordinates were in fact, correct?
What confused me is one moment the top number is 30, then - 98, and now you're saying it's 30 again?
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So how do I hit -98?
Latitude goes from -90 (90 Degrees South) to +90 (90 Degrees North) and Longitude goes from -180 to 180 (westward).
If you are flying directly North, once you hit +90 it will start coming back down again as you pass the North Pole of the planet and are now flying directly South...
Don't even get me started on the difference between geographic and magnetic north!
Where did you get "-98"?
If you are flying directly North, once you hit +90 it will start coming back down again as you pass the North Pole of the planet and are now flying directly South...
Don't even get me started on the difference between geographic and magnetic north!
Where did you get "-98"?
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Right, so in the thread I linked... Is the top number supposed to be -98, or the bottom? Because the top seems to not be able to breach 90.